THE SOUL STIRRING EXPERIENCE .. NAA BANGARU THALLI

The movie which can inspire, motivate, stir the soul, make you think deeper into the self , give highest moving experience, has great cinematic values and leaves a mark for ever in life, then you have to know the story of that and also why you should watch the same.

If you are requested to watch on a Sunday afternoon,  a message oriented movie which won national awards but not released yet in the theaters , you would only do so,  for the respect to the person who called .  I felt i was doing a bit of sacrifice of hard earned Sunday to Amala ma’am when she invited me to the movie Naa bangaru thalli in Prasad labs, since i have immense respect for the sacrifice she was making too despite being very very busy, i agreed and watched the movie naa bangaru thalli .

Once we surrendered the time, the next thing was to watch it without bias and be conscious of the efforts made by the film makers as its no mean achievement to mortgage the life earned property and make this film which primafacie will never be commercially viable. One would assume like i did that, it was an experimental movie with a good intension and to show to intellectual audiences, film festivals , and to the affected target group of the issue/ problem.. 

All of these ideas in me just vanished and within few minutes of the movie,  i was sucked into the cinematic experience and got totally submerged into the movie.. It was the background score, camera work and anjali patil for the first 5 minutes who did all the magic and i was getting conscious of their individual contributions initially . Later nothing of such independent brilliance was coming to my mind and the entire movie per se was absorbing .

Rajesh touchriver narrative style was very sharp, focused, and he built the liking and vulnerability of the audience for the protagonist played by anjali patil. He then unleashed the terror of sex trafficking in the new dimension. It breaks the intricate emotions like trust, hope and family and throws us into the quagmire of terror surrounding  all of us, of which either, we are unaware of  or we just pretend that nothing of such kinds exist around us as we are caught in our own worlds.

Watching any movie has to stir our sensibilities and make us do the soul searching if it is not entertaining us in any manner at least .  Movie as the medium for all its inherent strength has to engage us deeply to make us realize or remind something of us... We may choose to feebly call it inspiring or motivating. But this movie naa bangaru thalli is more than that. I for one felt guilty that i did not do anything in life to even understand the issue of sex trafficking in the proper light , leave alone not contributing anything .

Siddiqui, anjali are the stars of the movie and the last scene is the most difficult scene which is unimaginably  very well done.  Here Anjali has demonstated milllion expressions in 2 minutes to depict the complexity of the situation and the mind.  Most feelings cannot have only few expressions in life as the reaction time to events can be varied and complex too. Hats off to rajesh and anjali. I will see that scene a million times. The climax song brought out the child in me and i sobbed for long after a very long time. Not many Telugu movies in the last many years have had this effect on me.

What can anyone say about shreya ghosal song.. it was like the sixer of the last ball in the world cup. The song will spin off your soul.   Shantanu moitra, sharreth, and garlapati venkata raghu deserve a big salute for this song too.  An overall fabulous experience of watching the movie and true testimony is that, i am talking about this to everyone i meet. It leaves an ever lasting impression on my mind and soul. I watched it second time in 6 days and the effect is the same.

Truly wonderfully bend and take a bow for Sunitha krishnan for the most wonderful thankless and relentless work being done by her and prajwala in last 30 years in rescuing children and women from sex trafficking . watch this movie if you are a movie buff and watch this movie if you care for humans and if you belong to both the categories then celebrate the festival (  in telugu for fun its called pandaga chesuko)

The movie will hit the screens in October or November. Watch out and do not forget to listen to the song Kanupapa nai sung by shreya ghosal and available on the you tube.  Please please watch ted talks by sunitha krishnan on the you tube .  Be inspired and thank the lady and salute the short lady with the longest agenda of fighting against the slavery of the new kind and worst kind .